This study explored the role of the board of directors in the relationship between integrated risk management and product innovation. We focused on a board's direct involvement in risk oversight and its use of external audit in risk oversight, and examined their moderating effects on the...

This study examines the role of the institutional quality and diversity of foreign markets on exporting firms’ innovation performance. Building on the institutional economics theory, the institution-based view of international expansion, and the literature on international diversification,...

This study investigates the extent to which strong relationships between a firm and its key suppliers promote effective new product introduction. Building on the relationship marketing literature, we identify self-enforcement and interdependence as two contingent relational variables that...

Following the efficiency logic that argues process quality management provides an important basis for firms’ internal controls over their innovation activities, this study which is set within emerging markets extends the literature by shedding light upon an interesting phenomenon: employing...

This research examines the roles of government policies within the national innovation system (NIS) in promoting effective social entrepreneurial action and enhancing economic growth in rural sectors. We investigate government's role in promoting effective social entrepreneurial action within...

The relationship between self-imposed certification of the quality of a firm’s management practices and its new product performance was investigated using data from a survey of 878 manufacturing and service firms. Certification was shown to promote new product success by reducing the...

This study proposes and tests a theoretical framework that relates a firm's limitation strategy and its interaction with R&D resources to incremental and radical innovation. The analysis of a panel dataset of 1381 Chinese manufacturing firms in the period 2008–2014 shows that imitation...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the effect of firm-specific capabilities on performance in regional polarization.Design/methodology/approach – The study develops and tests a theoretical model relating regional economic characteristics and firm-specific capabilities to...